Software engineering company Global Kinetic has made seven new appointments in various departments.
The new employees, dubbed by the company as 'the magnificent seven', are Niel Joubert, Jason Daniels, Unakho Kama, Kyle Store, Juwairiah Khan, Christopher Pitt and Fundile Masumpa.
According to the company, Pitt will lead from the front as the new senior front-end developer, while Jourbert takes on the role of senior iOS developer. Daniels has been appointed as a Scrum master, Kama a junior Java developer, and Store joins as a production support manager.
Khana and Masumpa have been appointed as mid-QA and junior Android developer respectively.
Martin Dippenaar, CEO of Global Kinetic, says the multiple appointments were driven by numerous factors, including the pending expansion to the US. "With a growth of over 40% in headcount and profit over the past two years, we are constantly looking to increase our human capital in order to meet the demands of our rapid expansion in the fintech space. We are not always this lucky to have such a great set of talent of old and new faces join us at exactly the same time."
Sergio Barbosa, CIO at Global Kinetic, adds: "This group is the perfect combination of experienced individuals that we have had the privilege of working with in the past (Jason, Kyle and Niel) combined with some of the brightest young talent that we have been able to find in the market (Chris, Fundile, Juwairiah and Unakho).
"This type of combination of old and new is essential if we are to meet the demands we currently have with our expansion into global markets, specifically the US."
The company provides solutions across the application stack, predominantly .NET or Java deployed to Azure, AWS or physical infrastructure on the enterprise side, and native or hybrid technologies on the mobile side for Apple, Android and Windows Phone.
The company designed and created the Unity3D program for the immersive gamified children's mobile banking app for Standard Bank, and designed and developed PayToday, the Venmo for Southern Africa.
At present, GK employs just under 100 developers, designers and creatives. The company has offices in Century City, Cape Town and Palo Alto in the US.
Dippenaar notes the company is working on 18 projects across the mobile and cloud space. "Although our main focus is on the ones tied to the development of our open banking platform, FutureBank."
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